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An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo: Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the United States, the Biden ...

Language reveals who we are, helps us understand our history and shapes our identity. When it is spoken, written and passed down, it keeps communities strong and carries their legacy, culture and ...

First issued as a paperback in 2011. "For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding the issue ...

The University of Arizona’s new West Region Native American Language Resource Center is leading a national effort to empower tribal communities in language revitalization. The resource center received ...

This year’s Humanities EXPLORE Program fellows are adventurous and ambitious, transcribing 300-year–old texts, helping to revitalize forgotten languages, exploring archives, and learning from faculty ...

Bernadette Quiroz, language revitalization chair for the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, will discuss the tribe’s endangered Indigenous language in “A History of Chochenyo: A Language Reawakened,” on Wednesday, ...

What does it take to reawaken a sleeping language? For Elizabeth Bryant, a Takelma language program leader for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the answer lies in years of dedication, ...

Former President Trump's English-only mandate sparked concern among Indigenous language advocates. Despite historical suppression, Indigenous language revitalization efforts are gaining momentum.

Indigenous languages differ so much from the colonizers’ language of English they can’t be understood by simply replacing words. They make the speaker understand Indigenous philosophies of ...